Ironing-table



NTTE STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE E. BENTON, OF MONROE, NEV YORK.

IRONING-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,507', datedDecember 9, 1890.

Application filed June 28, 1890,

To @ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. BENTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Monroe, in the county of Orange and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Ironing-Table, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to improvements in ironing-tables.

The object of the present invention is to provide asimple andinexpensive ironingtable adapted. to be compactly folded when not in useand capable of being' securely held in its operative position.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an ironing-tableconstructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is an invertedplan view illustrating the parts in their folded position. Fig. is acentral vertical longitudinal sectional view, the parts being inposition illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. i is a detail view on line et 4 ofFig.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates an ironing-board 2,the rearlegs, which are connected at their upper ends to the lower faceof the ironing-board by hinges 3, and with the front legs itby side bars5, arranged upon both sides of the ironing-table, and each having oneend pivoted near the upper ends of the real-legs andthe other endsimilarly secured to the front legs near the lower ends thereof. Therear legs are connected by cross-pieces (i and 7, the latter of which isarranged at the upper ends of the legs and secured to them in recesses,and the upper ends ot the legs and the eross-pieces 7 are beveledsufficiently to allow the ironing board when the table is in operativeposition, as illustrated in Fig. 1, to be swung slightly upward abovethe 'iront legs to allow a skirt or similar garment to be placed uponit. rlhe side bars 5 are arranged upon the outer faces of the legs andare adapted to receive the latter between them when the parts arefolded, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and the said side bars areprovided with blocks S, arranged Serial No. 357,118. (No model.)

on the lower edges near the front ends of the bars and adapted to engagethe front legs below the pivotal points and prevent them' swingingforward, and buttons 9 are pivoted to the upper edges of the side barsand are adapted to prevent the front legs swinging rearward and foldingwhen the board is raised, and the blocks 8 extend beyond the inner facesof the side bars and prevent the front legs swinging through the barswhen the parts are folded, and the buttons lock the front legs whenfolded. The front legs are connected by cross-pieces 12 and 13, and'havethe projections 10 extending from their upper ends to engage therecesses 1l to hold the parts in their proper position for use.

The rear legs have secured to their upper ends a bracket 1l, arranged onthe rear faces of the legs and composed of a vertical portion and ahorizontal supporting-shelf extending above the ironing-board when theparts are in operative position, and adapted to hold an iron-rest andirons.

The front end 15 of the ironing-board is reduced to forni a bosom-board,and the ironing-board is provided with beveled shoulders 1G, arrangedupon opposite sides of the inner end of the bosom-board, and are adaptedto be engaged by the beveled ends 17 of a lock .ing-frame 1S, pivoted tothe bosom-board and adapted to complete the ironing-board and to securea bosom properly for ironing. The locking-frame 18 is composed of sidepieces 19, pivoted near their inner ends to the bosomboard, and an endpiece 20, connecting the outer end of the side pieces and the lockingframe, is adapted to be swung upward preparatory to receiving thearticle to be ironed, and the beveled ends 17 engage the beveledshoulders 1G and hold the upper face of the locking-frame flush with theironingboard.

From the foregoing description and the accompanying dra-wings theconstruction, operation, and advantages of the invention will be readilyunderstood.

lVhat l claim is- In an ironing-table, the combination of theironing-board, the rear legs hinged to the ironing-board, the frontlegs, the side bars pivotally connected tothe front and rear legs, theblocks arranged on the lower faces of the IOS side bars to engage thefront legs below the pivotal point of the same, and the buttons pivotedto the upper faces of thebars and arrranged to engage the front legsabove the pivotal point of the same, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own have hereto afxed mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

GEO. E. BENTON.

XVitnesses:

GILBERT CARPENTER, JOHN K. ROE.

